The Touch and Other Stories (Paperback)

As the late-and-great Southern writer William Faulkner said in his 1950 acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature, the "only thing worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat," is the "human heart in conflict with itself." In writing the stories in this collection, my goal was to deal with the verities of the human heart. The stories address the universal experiences shared by all women, from childhood to old age, regardless of ethnicity. They are stories about what it means to be a daughter, a mother, a lover, a wife, and a friend but most of all a woman, one who has no choice but to view the world around her from the female perspective.